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The Florists' Review 



July 19, 1917. 



Summer Roses 



If you buy your summer Roses from us you will be assured of pleased customers. 

 We receive large cuts of the leading varieties fresh daily and can furnish you 

 with any quantity desired, all grades. Prices reasonable. 



We also have a good supply of Delphinium, Gladioli, Calendulas, Cornflowers, Car- 

 nations, Water Lilies, Gypsophila, Lilies, Valley, Peonies, Centaurea, Asters, Myosotis, 

 and all other seasonable flowers and greens. Let us supply you. 



F RNE a ft OMPANY 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



30 E. Randolph St. 



Successors to ERNE & KLINGEL 



'•'•lS^!^<SSft'"* *'"' CHICAGO 



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although some poorer quality stock also 

 finds its way through. American Beau- 

 ties are not an important item, but the 

 limited supply which arrives is moved 

 with little difficulty. Mrs. Eussell is 

 easily the best seller and prices hold up 

 well. Eed roses are selling exceptionally 

 well for this season of the year. There 

 are not many Eichmonds, and Milady 

 therefore meets the greater part of this 

 need. White Killarney is scarce. Ophelia 

 is in good supply, and is profiting by 

 the shortage in good white stock. 



There are great quantities of poor 

 quality carnations on the market, and 

 these are found to be a heavy drag. 

 What fairly good stock does arrive, how- 

 ever, finds a moderately good sale. Car- 

 nations usually are practically out of 

 the market at this date and receipts are 

 decreasing rapidly, but it is probable 

 there will be no day this summer that 

 carnations are not to be had. 



Easter lilies are in good supply and, 

 although their sale has been far from 

 satisfactory, demand now begins to show 

 a tendency to increase. Valley and 

 orchids, though not in large supply, ar- 

 rive in ample quantity to meet the de- 

 mand, and no scarcity recently has been 

 felt. Althougli the quality of sweet peas 

 as an average is commencing to deterio- 

 rate, some good stock still is arriving and 

 this finds a fair sale. The supply of 

 peonies is shortening, but there are still 

 considerable quantities in storage, and 

 it is probable that they will still be ob- 

 tainable for several weeks. A fair sale 

 is recorded, but beyond question they 

 are depressing tlie prices for other flow- 

 ers. Gladioli are scarce, the local crop 

 not having yet arrived, and it was at 

 times last week found impossible to fill 

 orders for them. A variety of summer 

 flowers arrive, among which may be men- 

 tioned the aster, of which a limited 

 supply is coming in. 



Greens of all kinds are in increased 

 su])ply. A groat abundance of plumosus 

 and Sprengeri is to be seen. 



Weiland Now Heads Flower Growers. 



At the annual meeting of the Chicago 

 Flower Growers' Association, held at 

 the company's office at 182 North Wa- 

 bash avenue, July 16, the following offi- 

 cers were elected: President, George C. 



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F. T. D. Cut Flower Service in a wholesale 

 way with the "Out-of-Town" Retail Florist 

 is practical co-operation between the 

 grower and the retailer. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



Chicago 



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Weiland; vice-president, Chas. McCau- 

 ley; secretary, Eudolph Ellsworth; 

 treasurer, E. Meuret. Fred Schramm, E. 

 Meuret and Anton Then were reelected 

 directors to serve for a term of two 

 years and Arthur Stielow was elected 

 a director to serve for a similar term. 

 Paul E. Klingshorn continues as the 

 manager and there was general com- 

 mendation of his work. 



Various Notes. 



Peter Eeinberg is one of the growers 

 who believe it is better to be safe than 

 to be sorry. He has filled all his coal 

 sheds and is industriously building up a 

 great coal pile in the open air, carload 

 upon carload of Pocahontas costing more 

 than $5 a ton on his siding. 



That there has been no curtailment in 

 the use of flowers for customary pur- 

 poses is shown by the fact that one 



downtown retailer in one day last week 

 had fourteen orders for patients in the 

 various hospitals. 



Walter Adams, with Mrs. Adams as 

 chief assistant, has become nicely set- 

 tled in the store and conservatory at 

 the southeast corner of North State and 

 Division streets. These are the quarters 

 fitted up several years ago for the north 

 side branch of the Fleischman Floral 

 Co., under the management of the late 

 John Gormley, and Mr. Adams has 

 much larger space, much better display 

 and a decidedly better location than be- 

 fore. 



The Johnson & Chronis store at Lake 

 Park avenue and Forty-seventh street 

 is to be thoroughly renovated this sum- 

 mer and a new Eando refrigerator with 

 double the capacity of the present one 

 will be installed. Mr. Johnson has the 

 fixture ordered and expects to have it in 



